U+5AAD "媭" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+5AAD "媭" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character used primarily in classical and literary contexts, where it forms part of a historical given name or term. Specifically, it appears in the name of the legendary poet Qu Yuan’s sister, often referenced in traditional Chinese texts and folklore. The character combines the radical for "woman" (女) with a phonetic component, and while it is not commonly used in modern everyday Chinese, it retains cultural and historical significance in studies of ancient literature.

General Properties

Code Point	U+5AAD
Version Added	1.1
Name	CJK Unified Ideograph-#
Block	CJK Unified Ideographs
General Category	Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	媭
HTML Hex Encoding	媭
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE5 0xAA 0xAD
UTF-16 Encoding	0x5AAD
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00005AAD
C/C++/Java Escape	\u5aad

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFD Quick Check	Yes
NFKC Quick Check	Yes
NFKD Quick Check	Yes
Numeric Type	None
Numeric Value	NaN
Line Break	Ideographic
East Asian Width	Wide
Script	Han
Script Extensions	Han
Indic Syllabic Category	Other
ID Start	Yes
XID Start	Yes
ID Continue	Yes
XID Continue	Yes
Alphabetic	Yes
Vertical Orientation	Upright
Grapheme Base	Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break	Other
Word Break	Other
Sentence Break	OLetter
Ideographic	Yes
Unified Ideograph	Yes

Unihan Properties

kCangjie	HOV
kCantonese	seoi1
kDefinition	sister
kFourCornerCode	2140.4
kGB8	9127
kHanYu	21067.031
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	21067.031
kIRGKangXi	0267.361
kIRG_GSource	G8-7B3B
kTGH	2013:5218
kJapaneseKun	ANE
kJapaneseOn	SHU
kKangXi	0267.361
kMainlandTelegraph	1294
kMandarin	xū
kRSUnicode	38.9
kSMSZD2003Index	159.16
kTGHZ2013	412.160:xū
kTotalStrokes	12
kTraditionalVariant	"嬃" U+5B03 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020	G
kXHC1983	1299.140:xū